For this, Peter, we might need to do a search through all past Canberra Bird Notes and Gang-gangs. It is certainly spelt ‘Rose Lagoon’ in many of them, and, as a Google inquiry will show, in many other places. I had known it as ‘Rose Lagoon’ before the referred to sign appeared, and I took it either as a witticism, a statement by a landholder called ‘Rowe’, or the advancing of an opposite viewpoint by someone who might or might not have had grounds for it. I am suspicious of names that achieve currency on the basis of a single, apparently private, sign.
I think the answer to your question is ‘yes’, but if you wish to take it up with the NSW place names committee or whatever it is called I shall be interested in the result.
From: Peter Ormay [
Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2012 6:13 PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] Rowes Lagoon or Rose Lagoon
I wish to bring to your attention that Rose Lagoon as spelt in Canberra Bird Notes Vol 37 No 1 Mar 2012 is spelt Rowes Lagoon on the access track to the BBQ area at the site and on one map that I have checked.
Is it usually spelt Rose Lagoon in COG circles?
